South African government has been promulgating pieces of legislation aimed at ensuring racial integration, especially in higher education, and indirectly enforcing acculturation in historically white universities. Studies have proven that institutional cultures in historically white universities alienate and exclude black students' identities.…

The black librarians in Southern schools are the first of the faculty to integrate white schools, the first transferred and are largely left out of the power structure. (MF)

The American Library Association's (ALA) Black Caucus expects that the ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee will proceed to carry out the mandate--to censure and bring sanctions against those librarians and libraries that provide service to segregated schools established to circumvent the U. S. Supreme Court Decision. (Author/MF)

Consists of 8 articles entitled: (1) Winners and Losers; (2) What the Statistics Say; (3) Northern Integration; (4) Massive Resistance Northern Style; (5) The Case of New York City; (6) As the Students See It; (7) Mississippi Conversations; (8) Reflections on the Past Twenty Years. Each deals with the aftermath of Brown vs. the Board of Education.…

The Brown decision is examined in light of the changing racial attitudes during the 1930s and 1940s. The effects, both positive and negative, of the decision are also discussed with emphasis on the continuing fight to bring about equal opportunity. (MC)

This study is concerned with the participation by Negroes in public recreation programs in 24 suburban communities in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, and the five boroughs of New York City. It is a broadly descriptive study of the activities in which Negroes of all ages participate, as well as of administrative practices and problems…

Presents recent citations under various headings, including: history, children, the Black woman, the American scene, Spanish Americans, Indian Americans, poor Whites, other ethnic groups, school organization, teachers, compensatory education, Afro-American studies, innovative approaches, colleges, law and government, school and work, social…

This document presents the Supreme Court decision in the law suit between the Village of Arlington Heights, Illinois, and the Metropolitan Housing Development Corporation (MHDC). MHDC, a nonprofit developer contracted to purchase a tract within the boundaries of the Village of Arlington Heights, Illinois in order to build racially integrated low…

It is necesary to examine both historic and current events in order to understand the role of race in the United States today. The South's formerly rigid caste system has come to resemble the more flexible Northern social order, which has always been open to blacks in times of labor shortage. A number of important social and economic phenomena…

White racism has influenced theory and practice in psychiatry and allied fields. Psychiatrists have largely ignored the interactionist approach, as expounded by Sullivan and Rush, in analyzing Negroes within their respective societies. Rather, in the vein of Freudian preoccupation with unconscious motivation, abnormal behavior and what is…

Surveys past two decades of struggle for Black civil rights in the U.S., measuring progress in the areas of political equality, equality before the law, equality of opportunity, economic equality, and social equality. Concludes that Black people in 1983 remain as oppressed as 20 years ago. (RDN)

Data collected by the Louis Harris polling organization in 1978 concerning Black attitudes toward affirmative action programs were analyzed. It was found that Blacks who are optimistic and do not feel powerless generally support these programs. Whites who were also polled felt ambivalent toward them. (CJM)

This testimony, before a public hearing of the New York City Commission on Human Rights in May 1974, has the expressed purposes of briefly discussing and evaluating some of the gains that have been made in the 10 years since the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and 20 years after the historic decision that ended legal school segregation.…

This study was conducted to learn whether black educators who had been principals of all-black schools experienced job displacement during the period when schools were being desegregated. Reactive and nonreactive data-collecting techniques were used to gather information on 343 black administrators. The findings indicate that during the…